Thank you so much for 500 followers, welcome everyone! 💜🎮 We’re Game Assist - a collective making liberation politics accessible through video game analysis. We do this through video essays and Let’s Plays. Here’s a megathread of our video essays! www.youtube.com/@GameAssist - ThreadSky

gameassistyt.bsky.social • 113 days ago

Thank you so much for 500 followers, welcome everyone! 💜🎮 We’re Game Assist - a collective making liberation politics accessible through video game analysis. We do this through video essays and Let’s Plays. Here’s a megathread of our video essays! https://www.youtube.com/@GameAssist

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gameassistyt.bsky.social•113 days ago

Our most recent video essay is about how AC represents movement in Palestine, and how that compares with lived experience of Palestinians in the 12th century and now.
We hear from Palestinian devs about their thoughts on representation of Palestinians in games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX5CYRT9tc8

gameassistyt.bsky.social•113 days ago

In “Everything is Political: Institutional Racism in Life is Strange 2, @unethicalcoffee.bsky.social explores how systemic racism is represented in the game as not just isolated acts of violence, but woven into our institutions and our everyday lives. https://youtu.be/Af9kcJ59NGI

gameassistyt.bsky.social•113 days ago

In “How Video Game Futures Exchange Bodies For Capital”, @fiashouse.bsky.social investigates how representations of the future in games present bodies and capitalism, and make the exchange between bodies and capital, from FF7 Remake, to Cyberpunk 2077, to Citizen Sleeper. https://youtu.be/-npfakB9U9E

gameassistyt.bsky.social•113 days ago

In “Woman is at once serpent and apple: InQueery into Transfemininity in Catherine: Full Body”, @paleghosty.bsky.social looks into how a game about horrible people tackles relationships between trans people and their surroundings, and the representation of transfemininity. https://youtu.be/pbEerWteN0k

gameassistyt.bsky.social•113 days ago

Returning to the Life Is Strange series (a huge theme on our channel!) in “The Price of Life | Disability, Gender and Agency in Life is Strange” we discuss how gender and disability impact character agency and player choice throughout the five-episode game. https://youtu.be/HdJY5Bc37ag

gameassistyt.bsky.social•113 days ago

In “"Decolonization is not a metaphor": Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Video Games” Sara uses Tuck and Yang’s work 'Decolonization is not a metaphor' as a framework to discuss settler nativism, colonial equivocation, re-occupation, and more, across 6 AAA games. https://youtu.be/mKqpMaOu-HU

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